January 16, 2016 by radii
How many times have you brainstormed with your team, only to come out of the session with one mediocre, plausible idea? And when you reflect on how the meeting proceeded, you recall that there was one voice louder than all the others, very few competing points of views, lots of nodding heads, and more lunching than learning? You’re not alone. We’ve seen it and have even been a part of it ourselves. Welcome to what many believe to be the pitfalls of brainstorming.
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Last week we discussed the easiest and most effective ways to stay informed in your industry without getting overwhelmed. The key, of course, is to stay in the stream of information and maximize the amount of useful informational intake by weeding out unproductive sources. One of the best ways to make sure you're on top of your business game without dedicating a large amount of time is to find the most useful business blogs and use the techniques we discussed. And as with many things, the secret is to know where to look. Fortunately, at Radii, we do our share of reading up and we have you covered. We've brought you the 15 most useful blogs for entrepreneurs that consistently produce relevant and applicable articles to help you succeed in any business.
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It's easy to imagine that staying informed in your industry was a fairly simple matter a hundred years ago: you read the newspaper and talked to colleagues, networking around and passing on local information. Changes generally were less rapidly implemented and information was far from instantaneous. Most of your concern would have rested with local information and events, because chances are, your business wasn't global--and if so, if wasn't constantly accessible worldwide. Such is not the case anymore. The vast majority of businesses in Canada, including SMBs, have websites--and if a business does not, it is a safe bet that customers will still try searching for it on the web before consulting a phone book. The fact is that business and the internet are closely intertwined now. While this has many repercussions and effects on the business world today, of course, an oft overlooked result is that these businesses are shouting their messages into the increasingly populated cyberspace, allowing industry changes to occur quicker than ever.
How do you decipher what's being said to the point of gathering quality and useful information from your industry as a whole? Moreover, how can you manage so many voices? Here are several easy ways to stay informed in your industry without information overload.
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